Boston native Tre Norman of Worcester Academy gives verbal commitment to Marquette basketball

On what would have been Terrence Clarke’s twenty first birthday, Worcester Academy senior Tre Norman selected his subsequent cease in his basketball profession yesterday afternoon on the Tobin Group Heart.

The 6-foot-3 taking pictures guard gave a verbal dedication to play his school basketball at Marquette within the fall of 2023. Norman opted for the Golden Eagles over the likes of Harvard, Fairfield, Miami, Rhode Island, UMass and Penn amongst others.

An emotional Norman began off by thanking TechBoston coach Johnny Williams, and from there thanked quite a few others. He talked about Clarke, an area standout who handed away in a automotive accident in Los Angeles shortly earlier than the 2021 NBA Draft, the place he was anticipated to be chosen.

“It simply represents a complete lot,” Norman stated about making his announcement in Boston. “Terrence (Clarke) performed his entire profession right here and labored out right here on a regular basis. I didn’t get to thank him as a lot as I needed to in my dedication speech. I bought actually emotional. It means every thing on the earth to me to do it right here on his birthday.”

In attendance was his coach at Worcester Academy, Jamie Sullivan.

“(Norman) is only a nice scholar and a beautiful younger man,” Sullivan stated. “His mother and pa have been nice. We’re a small neighborhood and we needed to discover the precise youngsters. We knew he match that — basketball-wise, academically and socially — instantly.”

The four-star recruit is coming off his fifth 12 months taking part in for the extremely touted BABC AAU program after ending off a NEPSAC Class AA championship with a 23-7 mark which noticed him internet 17 factors in a two-point victory within the last over Bradford Christian Academy in early March.

“It was an amazing combination,” Norman stated about having the ability to begin his profession at TechBoston earlier than heading to Worcester Academy in 2020. “Enjoying at Tech Boston gave me the gritty toughness that I play with now. It confirmed me to not take something as a right. It gave me my coronary heart. Going to Worcester simply polished me and turned these tough edges into one thing easy and made me who I’m. I wouldn’t be right here with out each of them.”

Below legendary BABC coach Leo Papile, Norman blossomed into an athletic guard that not solely shoots the ball effectively, however has a wonderful skill to seek out the open man whereas additionally getting again on protection to guard the basket and clear up the glass for rebounds.

“He simply stored preventing. That’s why we took (Norman),” stated Sullivan about what he noticed within the then sophomore on the court docket in a sport in opposition to Lynn English. “The very fact you possibly can see the warrior within him.”